I send you the news at once.
Let my beloved lord and the others know.
I know how gladlythey would have helpedme.
I am now preparedfor whatever God may send,be it life or death,because I am now out of the pit and have reached our own land
I feel impelledto write those hurried letters.
The rest you will hear from the messenger Tipontius,who was so elated that he wished to flee to you at once.
Thank, with me, the Father of all grace, that the dear God may perfectHis work, that through this experience we may learn to pray and look for help from heaven.
God protect you all,and crush His feet alongwith all the monstrosities of the At half-past two in the nightin Tambach/ the spot where
I was delivered,for this is my Wittenberg on his recovery.
To the highlyesteemed Archbishop of Meissen.
Grace and peace in Christ !
I write you, dear Spalatin,havingfor many days observed Sabbatical repose with my pen.
I now begin to eat and drink,althoughmy legscan scarcelycarry my body.
I have lost more strengththan I could have believed, but with rest and warm compresses Kathie greets you respectfully, and regrets that she brought nothing for your dear daughters,but is having little books bound to send as a remembrance, hopingyou will take the will for the deed.
She is always extolling your benevolence.
May you prosper in Christ, and pray for us.
Written on morning of 27th.
I am very pleasedat your call to my fatherland,my Cordatus, for there you will be an ever-present combatant againstW., whom you abhor with a justand righteoushatred.
If it please you, and you can leave Nimmern without regret,then what God has ordained and what I desire will take place.
The air may be better than on marshy soil,for it is purifiedthrough furnaces burning night and day.
God that you are better,but pray curb your suspicions, or they will cause future illnesses.
Get rid of such ideas,as I also must do, for our enemy the devil goes about tryingnot only to destroythe soul,but to weaken the body through such thoughts,for he knows that the state of the soul depends in great measure on the condition of the body, for a mournful spirit consumes the flesh and the bones,while a merry heart makes a joyfulold age.
I tell you all this althoughI do not like to appear to teach you.
Farewell in the Lord.
Luther was angry at the nobles expectingtoo much Schreiner, pastor and superintendent at Grimma, my graciousfriend.
Christ, dear magister and pastor !
Say to the nobility, which Spalatin refuses to do, that one cannot have the clergyexactlyas theywish,and they should thank
God for the pure word, which they now hear out of one book, when they think of past times under the Pope and the nonsense they had to listen to